FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Transcript 1943, Paramount Pictures, Directed by Sam Wood, Screenplay by Dudley Nicoles any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; and therefore never send to know FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS It tolls for thee. SPAIN, 1937** KASHKIN Roberto! You promised. JORDAN Adios, Kashkin. KASHKIN Adios, Roberto. ** (00:05:01)** SINGER (singing in Spanish) GIRL Oh, hola, Americano. JORDAN Hola. (laughs) SOLDIER Hola, amigo. JORDAN Hola. GOLZ Help yourself. Jordan. JORDAN General Golz? GOLZ What an accent! (laughs) He even knows me in the dark. That's all we have in Spain now...accents...eh, Jordan? JORDAN Yes. I was looking for you when the lights went out. GOLZ I saw you. How did it go...the train? JORDAN All right. GOLZ Um-hmm. And Kashkin? JORDAN He caught one. GOLZ Huh? JORDAN He didn't want to be taken alive. GOLZ Oh, so it was like that. JORDAN Yes. Murder. GOLZ Orders are orders. JORDAN I still say it was murder. GOLZ Well, in this business, Jordan, remember nothing. Nothing except the next job. JORDAN What's next? GOLZ A bridge. JORDAN Oh, a bridge. GOLZ Right. To blow the bridge is nothing. But to blow it at a stated hour and at the time set for the attack, that's a horse uh...of another color...as you Americans say. JORDAN Attack? GOLZ Yes. At last we take the offensive. Oh, it will be beautiful Attack. On paper it looks wonderful, and if it succeeds.... No, I will not say "if". This time it must succeed, and it will. What I've told you, Jordan, is known only to the general staff. Our only chance to succeed is by a surprise attack. Now, here is the bridge, over a deep gorge. It's the only way the enemy can bring up reinforcements. Tanks, artillery, troops, all must come over this bridge. I must know absolutely it is gone. Not before the attack...they'd rebuild it. It must go the minute the attack starts, no sooner, no later. So the bridge is nothing. But suppose their soldiers are sitting on it when it's time to blow it? You know, sentries on both ends. What do you do then? JORDAN In my country, General, they say 'never blow a bridge till you come to it'. GOLZ Good! (laughs) That's good, you joke. In this business one should joke a little. I am so serious is why I can joke. (laughs) You think you can get through the enemy lines tomorrow night? JORDAN Sure. GOLZ Good. That will give you three days to prepare for the dynamiting. Wait for the attack at dawn, after the third night. JORDAN Um-hmm. How will I know the exact time? GOLZ Well, use these. Listen. First we attack from the air. When our planes fly over, you'll hear the explosions. That's your time. Oh, uh, IcI've got a good guide for you...an old man named Anselmo. But good. Knows the country like a fox, and the people to help you. Now, go and find yourself a pretty girl. But first get a haircut. JORDAN Is that an order, General? GOLZ Why not? JORDAN I don't like your barber. GOLZ (laughs) ANSELMO Up the gorge to the left is the bridge. JORDAN Sentry boxes, huh? ANSELMO At each end, Roberto. Always two sentries on guard. JORDAN Where do the sentries live? ANSELMO At the road-mender's hut, across the bridge. You can't see it from here. The other post is on this side in that old sawmill. JORDAN How many men at the sawmill? ANSELMO Eight, and a corporal. JORDAN The other post...how many men? ANSELMO Maybe more. We'll find out. Look! They always spit in the gorge. It brings luck. (00:10:04)** JORDAN I wish I could spit that far. ANSELMO Heh. Roberto. JORDAN Hmm? ANSELMO That sentry...he looks like a man from my village. He's very young. He must die? JORDAN You couldn't do it, Anselmo? ANSELMO I would kill the sentry, yes...considering the necessity of the bridge. But if I live later, I'll try to live in such a way, doing no harm to anyone, that it will be forgiven. JORDAN Come on, let's get this dynamite where it'll be safe. ANSELMO You wait here. Roberto. JORDAN Oh, I can make it, Anselmo. ANSELMO You want to be shot at carrying these? JORDAN No, not even in a joke. Go ahead. ANSELMO Roberto! He's the boss here, Roberto. Very strong man. JORDAN I can see. PABLO (to Jordan) Foreigner? JORDAN And a friend. Didn't the old man tell you? PABLO I'm asking you! JORDAN I'm here for the Republic. You know those seals, don't you? S.I.M., Service of Military Intelligence. This is the seal of the General Staff. They command for the Republic. PABLO In these mountains I command. No one else. What's that? JORDAN Dynamite. PABLO Good. I can use dynamite. How much you bring me? JORDAN None. What's your name? PABLO What's that to you? ANSELMO Pablo! He's Pablo! PABLO What for? JORDAN A bridge. PABLO What bridge? JORDAN That's my business. PABLO In this country, foreigner, it's my business! ANSELMO Is that a way to talk? PABLO Do you want to die? ANSELMO No. PABLO Shut your mouth! ANSELMO But didn't you hear what this comrade said? He comes for the Republic. JORDAN Anselmo! (to Pablo) Help us get this stuff up to your camp, will you? The old man's tired. PABLO (whistles) RAFAEL (whistles) RAFAEL Hola! What is this that comes? PABLO The old man and a dynamiter. Hey, that...that stuff! Not in the cave. JORDAN What're you making? RAFAEL A trap for foxes, see? Very practical. ANSELMO He catches rabbits. If a gypsy catches rabbits, he says it's foxes. RAFAEL (laughs) ANSELMO If he catches a fox, he would call it an elephant. RAFAEL And if I catch an elephant? ANSELMO You'd say it was a tank. (00:15:01)** RAFAEL I'll get me a tank, old man! (makes kissing noise) Some day I'll get me a tank and you can call it what you please. ANSELMO Gypsies talk much, kill little. I'm going for wine. RAFAEL Bring a cup for me. JORDAN Say, you have wine, huh? RAFAEL And plenty of it. We eat like generals here. ANSELMO Yeah, he eats like ten generals! RAFAEL (laughs) JORDAN And what do gypsies do in the war? RAFAEL They keep on being gypsies. JORDAN Why, that's a good job. RAFAEL The best. How do they call you? JORDAN Roberto. And you? RAFAEL Rafael. Oh, wine! PABLO There will be food soon. RAFAEL Food! PABLO Oh, you have tobacco, huh? Yeah, I know these. Much air and little tobacco. RAFAEL Ah, We eat! MARIA Hola! JORDAN Hola. MARIA That's the way I comb it. Go ahead and eat. PABLO Hey! Bread! JORDAN How are you called? MARIA Maria. And you? JORDAN Roberto. Been here long? MARIA This long. Three months. They shaved my head in Valliliod. I was on the train. They were taking me south. RAFAEL The train Pablo blew at Arevalo. MARIA Yeah. Many of the prisoners were caught again. They saved me. They and Pilar. RAFAEL We found her hiding in the rocks where she'd run from the train. You should have seen her when we brought her here. No hair at all. Cried all the time. And if anyone touched her, she'd shiver like a wet dog. Man, but she was ugly. ANSELMO God's truth, Roberto...though gypsies usually lie.... RAFAEL Aww! ANSELMO ...she looked like a half-drowned kitten. (laughs) RAFAEL (laughs) MARIA You blow trains? JORDAN I have. MARIA Here? JORDAN No, in Estremadura. MARIA In another six months it'll grow out. JORDAN Are you...uh...his woman? MARIA Pablo's? You've seen Pablo? JORDAN I've seen Rafael, too. MARIA (laughing) No. No, not the gypsy. RAFAEL This is a very strange woman, Roberto. Is of no one. MARIA (laughs) RAFAEL But she cooks well. MARIA (slightly laughs) JORDAN Really of no one? MARIA No one. No one. Nor of you, either. RAFAEL (laughs) (00:20:03)** JORDAN No. No, I have no time for women. RAFAEL & ANSELMO (laugh) RAFAEL No? (laughs) PILAR Maria! Maria! JORDAN Who's that? RAFAEL Pablo's woman, Pilar. She's something barbarous! But brave! Wah! A hundred times braver than Pablo. ANSELMO Pablo was brave in the beginning. RAFAEL Yeah. He killed more people than the cholera. Yes, at the start of the movement he killed more people than the bubonic plague. But Pilar...she is something barbarous! Ummm ! ANSELMO The gypsy's afraid of her. RAFAEL Why not? She has a strong hatred for me. JORDAN Why? RAFAEL She treats me as a time waster. She doesn't like gypsies. ANSELMO What an injustice! RAFAEL She has gypsy blood herself. She knows of what she speaks. But she has a tongue. It bites like a bull whip. (makes noise) PILAR What are you saying now? You lazy, unspeakable son of an unmentionable gypsy! Answer me, gypsy! RAFAEL I...I was telling this comrade what a kind woman you are, Pilar. PILAR Liar! RAFAEL This one comes as a dynamiter. PILAR I know that. Get out of here now and relieve Andres. He's on guard at the top. RAFAEL I go, Pilar, I go. I'll see you, Roberto, in the hour of eating. PILAR Not even in a joke! Three times today you've eaten. RAFAEL But I can eat twice more. PILAR Get out of here! And send me Andres! Hola, Ingles. How are you and how is everything in the Republic? JORDAN Good. Both good. PILAR I'm happy. What was that gypsy saying about me? JORDAN He said you were much woman. PILAR Huh. JORDAN And I'd say he's right. PILAR (laughs) And what were you saying to the girl, before I came out? JORDAN Umm...nothing. PILAR I saw how she was from seeing you. JORDAN I only joked with her. PILAR Jokes! Listen to me, Ingles. She's young, not hardened as we are, and she's had a bad time...the worst time a woman can have. You understand? JORDAN Yes, I guess so. PILAR I'm worried about her. When do you leave here? JORDAN In three days...if I'm still alive. PILAR What made you say that? That way of speaking never brings luck. Let me see your hand. JORDAN Well? PILAR Nothing. I saw nothing. What do you come for...blow another train? JORDAN No. A bridge. PILAR All the better. Now we have horses, let's blow all the bridges and get out! I'm sick of this place. We are all rotting here because there's no fighting...nothing to do but watch Pablo get drunk. This life is ruining him. JORDAN Tell me, what did you see in my hand? PILAR I saw nothing. JORDAN Yes, you did. I'm only curious, Pilar. (slightly laughs) I don't believe in such things. PILAR In what do you believe? JORDAN In my work. PILAR I saw that. JORDAN What else? PILAR Nothing else. The bridge is very difficult, you said? JORDAN No. I said it was important. PILAR But it can be very difficult? JORDAN Yes. I'm going back now to look it over again. How many men have you got here? PILAR Five that are good. The gypsy is worthless, although his intentions are good. Pablo, I no longer trust. JORDAN Thanks. I like your way of speaking. PILAR I try to speak frankly. JORDAN Then tell me what you saw in my hand. PILAR No. I saw nothing else. Go now to the bridge. I look after your equipment. Let me tell you again, Ingles. I'm glad you've come. We will understand each other. (laughs) (00:24:57)** JORDAN Smoke? RAFAEL What's that? JORDAN The bridge, showing the construction. RAFAEL Look how it seems. Why, it's the bridge itself! How do you blow a bridge? JORDAN That's what I'm figuring out. PABLO No! I don't go for the bridge. Neither me nor my people. JORDAN Then we'll do it alone, old one. ANSELMO Yes. Without this coward. PABLO Hey, you! What did you say? ANSELMO Nothing for you. I spoke to Roberto. JORDAN My orders are to blow the bridge. PABLO And I say no! In these mountains we hide. My business is to take care of my people and I...I know my business. Live one place, fight somewhere else. Fight, raid, blow trains, bridges, but way off. Not here where they will hunt us. JORDAN You'll clear out...get away to the Gredos. You've got horses. PABLO I have five horses and eight people. You and the old man with the loud mouth make ten. Now, if this bridge is blown, we will be hunted...hunted from the earth...from the air. Yeah. The explosions will fall from the sky on...on my horses. ANSELMO Until you had horses, you were one of us. Now you're rich with horses...you want to retire! PABLO You will blow no bridge here! JORDAN No? PABLO No. No bridge! JORDAN Pilar! What do you say? PILAR I am for the bridge and for the Republic. PABLO What's that, woman? PILAR I am for the bridge and against you. Nothing more. What do you say, Primitivo? PRIMITIVO I am also for the bridge. PILAR Fernando? FERNANDO To me the bridge means nothing. I'm for the woman of Pablo. PILAR Andres? ANDRES Yes, equally! RAFAEL The same, Pilar. PILAR Then we blow the bridge and retreat to the Gredos afterwards. PABLO You! You with your head of a bull and your heart of a hawk! You think there'll be any...any "afterwards" from this bridge, huh? PILAR I am for the Republic and the Republic is the bridge! PABLO It means nothing, huh, nothing then to be hunted like a beast after this thing which brings no profit? Nor even to die for it? PILAR Don't try to frighten us, coward! PABLO Coward? Is it cowardly to know what's foolish? Or am I a leader for nothing? Haven't I brought you all alive through a year of this war? This foreigner comes here to do a thing for the good of the foreigners. And for this good, you want to sacrifice us. I'm for the good and safety of all. PILAR Safety! Huh! There is no such thing as safety. Did I spend nine years with the worst paid matadors in the world not to learn about fear and about safety? Huh! Speak to me of anything but safety! Look at him. How I believed in him once, and look what he's now. From one year of war you've become lazy, a drunkard and a coward. PABLO Woman! You have no right to speak in that way. Not...not before my people and a stranger. PILAR Do you still believe you command here? PABLO Yes. Here I command! PILAR Here I command! Haven't you heard them? Here no one commands but me now. PABLO I should shoot you and the foreigner both. PILAR Try it and see what happens. Listen to me, drunkard! You understand now who commands? PABLO Why, I command! (00:30:00)** PILAR No! Listen! Take the wax from your ears. Listen well. I command. PABLO All right. All right. You command. And if you want, he...he can command, too. Maybe I am lazy and drink too much. Maybe you think I'm a coward...though you know better. Maybe. But I'm not stupid. Now if you're a woman as well as a commander, show us something to eat. PILAR Maria! Take the food. MARIA You must be careful. JORDAN Pablo? MARIA If you sleep, yes. JORDAN I'll keep an eye open. What's he doing? MARIA Only drinking. There will be danger if he begins to hide the sadness. If he pretends to be friendly, it'll mean he has made a decision. I heard Pilar say it. JORDAN What kind of decision? MARIA Who knows? After what's happened, it would mean great danger for you. JORDAN I'll look alter myself. I'm thinking about the bridge. MARIA I'm thinking about you, Roberto. JORDAN Why, Maria? MARIA Well, I don't know. JORDAN Did I muss it? MARIA All day I wanted you to do that. JORDAN I, too, Maria. JORDAN Get out of sight! RAFAEL Man! I could see their faces! AGUSTIN I spit in their faces! (spits) I spit in the milk of their motors! (spits) PABLO I tell you...I tell you they could see the horses! (00:34:59)** PILAR Wipe the sweat from your face. They could see the cigarette butts. PABLO Huh? JORDAN Hey, wait! They may be back! PILAR Coward! Go to your horses! JORDAN (to Pilar) Have you seen planes like this before? PILAR Never, Ingles. JORDAN Get inside. JORDAN I'm going with Pilar to the camp of El Sordo. We've got to have more horses. You know your sentry posts. Keep a close watch. Anselmo, I want you to write down everything that passes along the road. ANSELMO I can't write, Roberto. JORDAN I'll show you how to write. RAFAEL Look! Look how Roberto can make pictures. That'scthat's a truck, see? (laughs) And here's aca soldier on a horse. (laughs) Look! Tank! Umm! (blows kiss) I will catch me a tank like that, old man. (makes noise) JORDAN Whatever passes, make a mark. The man on the horse is for cavalry. Each mark will mean a troop of twenty mounted men. Understand? Each troop a mark. ANSELMO In this way I can write, yes. RAFAEL That's an educated pencil. JORDAN One paper is for movement up the road and the other for movement down the road, and when you get back tonight, I'll know what they're moving up to the front. Better get along and take some food with you. RAFAEL Can I write, too, huh? JORDAN I want you to watch the bridge and the two sentry posts. See if more soldiers are brought, and at what intervals the guard is changed. RAFAEL What...what is intervals? JORDAN How many hours the sentries stay on and at what time changes are made. RAFAEL Oh. Without a watch? JORDAN Take mine. RAFAEL Oh! Huh. What a watch! Look at what a complication. Such a watch should be able to read and write. JORDAN Here...don't fool with it. Can you tell time? RAFAEL Why not? Twelve o'clock day...hunger. Six o'clock night...drunk...with luck. Ten o'clock now. Oooh! JORDAN You don't need to be a clown. Do what I tell you and keep out of sight. RAFAEL (giggles) FERNANDO Salud, gypsy. Did you see the air machines? RAFAEL See them? We ate them for breakfast! (laughs) FERNANDO Is there food, Pilar? I'm hungry. It's a long walk from La Granja. JORDAN La Granja? FERNANDO Yes, Roberto. You wish tabacco? (to Primitivo) You? JORDAN Didn't you sleep here last night? FERNANDO For a while, yes. Then I thought of my woman and children in La Granja. Then I went to La Granja. JORDAN Well, wasn't that dangerous? FERNANDO It's all a matter of getting past their sentries. That's why I only go at night. Oh, Maria! JORDAN See much movement on the road last night? FERNANDO Nothing. A few trucks as usual. Cars. A few guns, as usual. No troops. JORDAN Pick up any news in town? FERNANDO But nothing. Oh, yes...there is some talk that the Republicans will try to blow the bridges, but.... JORDAN Are you joking? PILAR This one doesn't joke, Ingles. Bad luck he doesn't. FERNANDO A man like me is never alarmed by rumors, Pilar. JORDAN Remember anything more? FERNANDO No. Oh, they talk as usual ofcsoldiers to be sent to clear us out of these mountains. There is some talk troops are on the way. But they always talk like that. It's not to give any importance to. Only rumors as usual. PILAR Rumors! Everything as usual! Things are bad in the north, as usual! That troops come to hunt us out, as usual! An offensive here, as usual! Man, you are a monument to ''as usual!" FERNANDO But the last two, Pilar, are only rumors. PILAR Oh, my mother! JORDAN Let's go, Pilar. Who'll look after my things? PILAR The man of rumors. Remain here, Fernando, and guard the explosives. FERNANDO Very well, Pilar. Calm yourself. There is nothing to worry about. Only rumors. (00:40:19)** PILAR Wait! JORDAN Hello, Maria. MARIA Hello, Roberto. PILAR Ingles! JOAQUIN Hola, Pilar! PILAR Hola! MARIA Hola, Joaquin! JOAQUIN Hola, Maria. PILAR (to Joaquin) Tell Sordo I'm coming with the Ingles! (to Jordan) A good boy, Ingles. El Sordo saved him when his family was killed, and now they are like father and son. Ingles, tell mechave you known many women? JORDAN They meant nothing. PILAR I think you lie. JORDAN Well, maybe...a little. PILAR And for this one...for Maria...you care much? JORDAN Let's get on. EL SORDO What is the reason for the bridge, Ingles? Is there going to be an attack? And the airplanes this morning? Does that mean the enemy's found out? They're preparing a counterattack? JORDAN I only know one thing for certain. EL SORDO What's that? PILAR (to Jordan) You have to shout. JORDAN I only know one thing for certain. The bridge has got to go when the attack starts. And to do that we've got to have more horses and more men if we can get them. EL SORDO When do we blow it? JORDAN Day after...day after tomorrow! EL SORDO Easier blow the bridge tonight. JORDAN I'd be shot for it. EL SORDO Do it in daylight, and we may all be shot for it. JORDAN Not if we have horses. EL SORDO Hmm? JORDAN Not if we have enough horses. We'll get out of here quickly before the soldiers come after us. EL SORDO I have five horses and four men. JOAQUIN Five men, Sordo. EL SORDO So it is. Five with the boy. (to Jordan) Five men and five horses. JORDAN (to Pilar) That's ten horses for fifteen people. (to El Sordo) We've got to have five more horses! EL SORDO For the retreat, yes. No one will get out alive without a horse. JORDAN How can you get horses? EL SORDO Steal 'em. Only soldiers have horses now. Soldiers and thieves like us. (laughs) JORDAN Can you get five more tonight? EL SORDO What? JORDAN Tonight! EL SORDO We can try. JORDAN Good. EL SORDO Maybe not so good. Not good if it snows. Horses make tracks and soldiers follow tracks. PILAR It is too late for snow, Sordo. EL SORDO Hmm? PILAR It's the month of May! JOAQUIN And the sun is shining. EL SORDO Look at the young general. Already he's stealing horses. (laughs) He's always talking, Pilar, how he carried the girl from the train. PILAR Yeah. (laughs) EL SORDO Let's see you carry her down the hill, my boy. JOAQUIN Now you make fun of me. EL SORDO (laughs) PILAR (laughs) MARIA Wait, Joaquin! I'll carry you on my shoulder. PILAR Look, Ingles! Look at the bullfighter. He's crying. MARIA Don't mock, Pilar. He was telling me about his sister. She was a prisoner as I was, and he only heard yesterday that she was dead. I'm your sister now, Joaquin. We all love you, and you still have a family. We are your family. PILAR Yes, including the Ingles. Is that right, Ingles? JORDAN Of course. PILAR You hear that, boy? The Ingles is your brother. JORDAN Certainly. We're all brothers, Joaquin. JOAQUIN Thank you, Ingles, and don't worry. I'll get you a horse tonight. One for Maria, too. PILAR What about me? Do I have to kiss you, too, to get a horse? It's been years since I kissed a bullfighter. Hold this, Ingles, till I get a good kiss at him. Hah! Look at him! He's afraid of a kiss as he was afraid of the bulls. JOAQUIN You don't need to make a joke of it. PILAR When I kiss, it won't be as a sister. This trick of kissing as a sister! Hah! MARIA Don't be so brutal, Pilar! I love you very much, but why do you speak so brutally? PILAR Why do you think, girl, huh? ** MARIA Rest, Pilar! You are tired. PILAR Shut up! Nobody asked your advice! You think I'm an old woman, huh? JORDAN Sit down. PILAR Many things tire me. And one of them is to be old and ugly. And another is to see panic in the face of a boy when I say as a joke I might kiss him. MARIA It's not true. You didn't see that. PILAR What do you know of it...you with your face and your Ingles? I have an evil temper today, and I'm jealous. How foolish. I'm an ugly old woman, and I love you very much, child. MARIA I love you, too. You're not ugly. PILAR Go on, I'm not ugly! I was born ugly. Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and to feel in here that you're beautiful? MARIA You are beautiful. PILAR Try to use your head and not your heart, and listen. I'm telling you things of much interest. (to Jordan) Does it interest you? JORDAN Maria's right. PILAR Two of a kind! (laughs) You are a prize for any woman...if you'd ever let go of yourself. And this one...this one is a gift to any man...if she could cook a little better.(laughs) No, no, no, sit there. I have a surprise for you. Close your eyes. You too, Ingles. No, tch, tch, tch, tch. Tightly...both of you. JORDAN Pilar! Pilar, wait! PILAR Shut up, Ingles! I'm bored with both of you! (laughs) JORDAN Pilar! MARIA Let her go, Roberto. Let her go. Don't you want to be alone with me? JORDAN Of course. MARIA And I want to be with you, Roberto. That's what Pilar knows. She knows everything. JORDAN I'm beginning to believe it. Will she be all right? MARIA Oh, you don't have to worry about Pilar. It's a wonderful day, Roberto. What are you worrying about? JORDAN About you. MARIA Me? Why? Because I'm so happy? JORDAN I wish you weren't here, Maria. I mean it. I'm thinking about what's going to happen to you after the bridge. MARIA Can't I go with you, hmm? El Sordo will get us horses. I know we can't escape without them, but he'll get us horses. I know it. JORDAN You've got to understand, Maria. I'm in this war to the finish. I can't have anything serious in my life. A man doing what I'm doing never knows what's going to happen. MARIA Whatever happens to you will happen to me. JORDAN Haven't you any people in the Republic? No relatives at all? You must have people somewhere. MARIA My father and my mother...I saw them killed. My father was the mayor of our town and a Republican. And when the Nationalists took the town, they lined up all the Republicans against the wall. My father cried out very loud, "Long live the Republic." And then they shot him. But my mother was not a Republican. She had no politics, but she loved my father and she couldn't say that. So she just looked at my father who lay there on his face at her feet, and she said, "Long live my husband who was the mayor of this town." She said it very loud, like a shriek, and then they shot and she fell, and I wanted to go to her, but we were all tied. We were tied by the wrists in a long line of girls and women. And I wanted to be shot, too, and I was going to say, "Long live the Republic and my mother and my father." But instead, there was no more shooting. They...they herded us up the hill and through the streets to the square. Mycmy father's office was in the City Hall, but they took us across the street to the...to the barber shop. (sobs) I...I want to tell you. (00:50:30)** JORDAN No. Don't. MARIA (sobs) Roberto. Are you angry about something? JORDAN Of course not. MARIA I'm glad. I won't cry any more. Oh, Roberto, I like...I don't know how to kiss or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go? (laughs) Always I've wondered where the noses would go. They're not in the way, are they? I always thought they would be in the way. Look, I can do it myself. JORDAN Maria. MARIA Did I do it wrong? MARIA (laughing) Look, Pilar! Roberto fell in the brook. PILAR Already she makes you blind, eh, Ingles? Can't even see where you're going. Huh. FERNAMDO Hola, Ingles. ANDRES Hola, Ingles. MARIA Come sit down here where it's warm. I'll take your shoes and put them in the smoke of the fire to dry. JORDAN Hey, don't burn them. I don't want to stand around here barefooted. Maria, fetch me some dry socks. PILAR The Lord and Master. MARIA (laughs) JORDAN Here's the key. The pack is locked. Who's on guard at the top? FERNANDO Agustin. MARIA Put these on. Dry your feet well. JORDAN You can't dry them with your hair? MARIA (laughs) PILAR What a swine. (laughs) Hit him with a chunk of wood, Maria. (laughs) JORDAN I'm joking because I'm happy. MARIA You are happy? JORDAN Yes. I think everything goes well. MARIA Keep this under your feet untcuntil your shoes are dry. PILAR Must you care for him as a child? MARIA No. As a man who's cold and wet. And a man who has just come home to his house. PILAR Take the coffee, worthless one. JORDAN Does it always grow dark this early? FERNANDO No, Ingles. It's the weather. The wind is very disorderly. Seven, please. PRIMITIVO Getting colder out. FERNANDO Yes, Ingles. It is not correct to be so cold in the month of May. JORDAN Any movement on the road, Anselmo? ANSELMO Not much, Roberto. It's all marked on the papers. JORDAN Gypsy? RAFAEL Huh? JORDAN What about the bridge? RAFAEL Uh...six hour...uh... (snaps fingers) ...in...interval. (laughs) I stayed till they changed the watch...at noon and at six. It was a long watch, Ingles. And cold! Umm! My...my bones brec (00:55:09)** JORDAN How about the sawmill post? RAFAEL Eiceight men and a corporal. No more arrived. JORDAN Um-hmm. What about the post across the bridge? The road-mender's hut? RAFAEL I didn't get that far. I remembered what you said...to be careful. See? Uh... JORDAN Only ten cars, hmm? ANSELMO All written down, Roberto. PILAR Ingles! PABLO How do you like it, Pilar? Very beautiful...the snow, huh? (laughs) PILAR Get out of my sight! PABLO (laughs) PILAR God help El Sordo. JORDAN If it snows all night, it may cover his tracks. PILAR If, if! PABLO (laughs) How do you like it, woman, eh? How do you like to command when it snows? PILAR Shut up, drunkard! PABLO (laughs) (to Jordan) Yeah, I know why you went to see El Sordo. Horses make tracks in the snow, hey, Ingles? Yeah. (laughs) Now there will be no offensive. No bridge. No. Just snow. Yeah. And no making love in the heather! JORDAN Watch your mouth! PABLO (laughs) MARIA No. Let me. PABLO Maria. Maria! Wipe the table clean, Maria. PILAR Wipe your own spillings! PABLO Maria! PILAR Wipe first your chin, drunkard, and then the table! PABLO Maria. PILAR Pay no attention to him. He's drunk. PABLO Fix my shoes, Maria. JORDAN Are you really drunk? PABLO Why not? JORDAN But not too drunk to watch your mouth! (to Agustin) No one on guard at the top? AGUSTIN In this storm? What for? No soldiers will move in these mountains tonight. Pilar, bring me something hot to eat! MARIA Wine, Ingles? JORDAN I thought I was Roberto. MARIA I call you Ingles before the others. PABLO Roberto? Huh! Don Roberto. (laughs) How is Don Roberto? (laughs) JORDAN Fine, Don Pablo. How's Bacchus? PABLO Who is Bacchus? JORDAN You ought to know. He's your constant companion. PABLO I don't know such a man. You say funny things, Ingles. JORDAN Sure, I do. I'm a laugh every minute. AGUSTIN Pay no attention. He's drunk. FERNANDO Tell us, Ingles, why have you come so far to fight for our Republic? JORDAN A man fights for what he believes in, Fernando. MARIA Roberto was a professor. He told me this afternoon. JORDAN Not a professor, Maria. An instructor. MARIA Well, that's the same thing. He was a teacher in a college in America. PABLO The professor has no beard. He's a false professor. (laughs) AGUSTIN Shut up! PABLO No beard. No...no beard. AGUSTIN Enough! PABLO But he's got no beard. Beard. No beard. MARIA He does have a beard. (01:00:01)** PABLO You should know, girl. FERNANDO Pay no attention, Ingles. He's drunk. JORDAN I don't think he's so drunk. PABLO Yes. Yes, I am drunk. (laughs) JORDAN I doubt it. Cowardly, yes! PABLO (laughs) You try to provoke me, Ingles? No, you won't get rid of me that way. JORDAN I said cowardly. Not drunk! PABLO See? See, I don't provoke. Uh, signal to the woman that you've failed. JORDAN Pilar had nothing to do with it. You spoke to the girl as accoward. PABLO I don't provoke. (to Pilar) See, woman? I teach the professor I don't provoke. (laughs) I'll still be alive...when you're all dead! I'm not stupid. (laughs) To the Professor, to the Senora commander, and to all...all the illusioned ones. That's silly. It's a waste of good wine. I don't provoke. (laughs) I am drunk. The wise man gets drunk to spend his time with fools. AGUSTIN Get out! PABLO Yeah, I go. I'll go to the horses. They have more sense than men. (laughing) Tell them about the bridge, professor, and how to escape afterward. (laughs) Who will lead your patriots in the retreat, huh? AGUSTIN Get out! PABLO It's still falling, Ingles. (laughs) AGUSTIN Let me go! I'll kill him! JORDAN Give me that rifle! RAFAEL Why didn't you kill him last night? JORDAN What do you think he'll do now? RAFAEL He will toss a bomb in here. That's his style. AGUSTIN Give me your pistol. I'll shoot him when he comes back. JORDAN You want to blow us all up? Remember what's in those sacks. PRIMITIVO What fools we are! RAFAEL Why didn't you kill him last night? AGUSTIN He's got to die now! JORDAN Pilar? What do you say, Pilar? PILAR Yes. Whatever you will, I'm for it now. JORDAN Then let all speak. Andres, what do you say? ANDRES Yes, kill him! RAFAEL Kill him. JORDAN Primitivo? PRIMITIVO Kill him! JORDAN Agustin? AGUSTIN Do you need to ask? Kill him! JORDAN Fernando? FERNANDO Don't forget, Ingles, that he's smart...and he knows the way to the Gredos. AGUSTIN Fool! FERNANDO Who will lead our retreat after the bridge? AGUSTIN El Sordo! He knows the way as well as that traitor! Pilar, tell him that El Sordo will lead us. FERNANDO Couldn't we hold him as a prisoner? AGUSTIN Who would look after a prisoner? PRIMITIVO He is right, Fernando. It would take us all to watch him. RAFAEL Why not sell him to the enemy? AGUSTIN Shut up, gypsy! That's filthy! RAFAEL No worse than Pablo. If you'd blind him, he will be easy to handle. PILAR Watch your tongue, gypsy! RAFAEL Didn't Pablo blind the civil guard who was wounded? PILAR Speak of blinding again and you go with Pablo. FERNANDO Pilar, I haven't been allowed to finish yet. (01:05:02)** PILAR Finish, then. Finish! FERNANDO I still maintain we need Pablo. We should reason with him and point out that his conduct.... AGUSTIN Stop it, man! PILAR Even here one man can make a bureaucracy with his mouth! You've voted to kill him. Now have done with it! AGUSTIN (to Jordan) Kill him when he returns. JORDAN I must wait for him to make the first move. AGUSTIN Why wait? Kill him, man! JORDAN In cold blood? AGUSTIN Cold. You Ingleses are all cold. Here, give me your gun! I'm not cold. I'm burning! JORDAN Not in here. No shooting in here. AGUSTIN You'll see how cold my blood is when that coward comes back! PILAR Ugly. All of it's ugly! Remember one thing, Ingles. He wasn't always like this. When the war broke out, he wasn't the man you see now. Brutal, yes...but a leader without fear. Had it not been for Pablo, the Nationalists would have taken our town the day the revolution began, for many Nationalists lived there. But Pablo organized the people, and in the night all the suspected citizens were dragged from their beds and locked up in the city hall. Then, in the dark, he surrounded the police barracks, cut the telephone wires, and placed dynamite under the wall. When morning came, he called on the civil guards to surrender. But the worst was yet to come, Ingles, when Pablo opened the door of the city hall and let the mob in to kill the rest of the prisoners. PABLO The snow has stopped, Ingles. Now we'll have good weather for the bridge. Yes, I've come back to help you. I cannot desert Pilar and my people. FERNANDO Wait, man! PILAR What trick is this, drunkard? PABLO No trick, Pilar. I've changed my mind, that's all. You're right about the bridge and I'm with you now. Don't forget you'll need me for the retreat, Ingles. FERNANDO Just what I said. RAFAEL You were listening! You're afraid of being killed. That's why you've changed. You were listening! PABLO Do you think I like to hear it toldchow we killed those men? If I could bring them back to life, I'd...I'd do it. AGUSTIN Liar! PABLO No, I mean it. I wish I could bring them back to life...even Don Ricardo who cursed me. AGUSTIN Stop it! PABLO Yes, I would restore them all to life. That's God's truth. And it's also true that I...I'm with you now. I was drunk. Now I'm not drunk and I've changed my mind. Either trust me or not, but there's no one who can get you out of here to the Gredos as...as I can. FERNANDO I believe you. But take an oath. Are you with us now and in favor of the bridge? PABLO Yes, yes, man. FERNANDO And you think it can be successful in spite of the snow? PABLO There will be no snow at the bridge. FERNANDO You have confidence? PABLO Why not? AGUSTIN Fools! Lunatics! You're all crazy if you believe him! MARIA What, Roberto? JORDAN Trooper. (01:10:00)** MARIA Trcwhat does it mean? JORDAN I don't know. See anything? MARIA No. Are you sure it was a trooper? JORDAN Yes. Where's Pablo? MARIA In the cave. PABLO Man, what a horse! JORDAN Never mind the horse. Get in the saddle. This horse has made tracks in here and he's got to make 'em out again. PABLO You have much sense, Ingles. I'll ride him in the hills until the snow's melted. JORDAN Keep your eyes open. There's bound to be more cavalry. Go back to the cave and get the machine gun and my binoculars. We've got to cover the pass below. (to Primitivo) You give him a hand. You too, Anselmo. (to Rafael) Hey, go back to that soldier and see if you can find more clips for this gun. And leave his pockets alone! MARIA Roberto! Roberto, I'm coming with you! JORDAN Go back to the cave. Tell Pilar to get everything packed. We may have to run for it. MARIA No. JORDAN Go back, Maria. There may be a fight. MARIA I'll hold the legs of the machine gun for you. JORDAN No! MARIA Let me hold the legs of the machine gun while you fire it. JORDAN Go back! MARIA Please let me go with you. I want to help. JORDAN Then go back! MARIA Kiss me. JORDAN You're shameless. MARIA Yes. JORDAN What's happened to that gypsy? ANSELMO I saw him coming down, Roberto. Then he saw a rabbit and went after it. JORDAN Fine time to go hunting. Primitivo, get up on that rock as high as you can climb. If you see soldiers, throw a stone down for a signal. Wait a minute. If you see one soldier, raise your rifle like this. PIMITIVO Like this? JORDAN Yeah. If more than one, pump it like this. One for each soldier. Understand? PRIMITIVO Yes. JORDAN Anselmo, get down with Agustin and hold the legs of the gun, if I have to shoot. (01:14:50)** JORDAN Get down! AGSUTIN Rifles! ANSELMO Now the soldiers are hunting. JORDAN Wait here. PRIMITIVO Is it Pablo? JORDAN El Sordo. MARIA Roberto! Roberto! Oh, Roberto! Oh! Oh, we could hear the firing at the cave, and I was afraid! I was afrai... JORDAN You shouldn't have come here. MARIA (sobs) PILAR I let her come, Ingles. She was half crazy. She thought you were fighting. AGUSTIN Why aren't we fighting? JORDAN (to Pilar) They want to go to El Sordo. PILAR Have you lost your minds? What kind of locos do we have in our camp? AGUSTIN Men...not women! PILAR Then act like men! Don't you think you'll die soon enough? AGUSTIN Swallow your tongue, woman, and choke yourself! PILAR Silence! What use is courage if you have no head? El Sordo has both. He'll understand. (to Jordan) Was he coming with the horses when they found him? JORDAN He'd have found better cover on this side. Looks like he did his best to lead them away from us. EL SORDO Joaquin! Quick! Begin to fire! MARIA (sobs) (01:19:48)** PABLO Pilar! Pilar! PILAR & AGUSTIN (talking indistinctly) PABLO Salud, Pilar. PILAR Look at him...already at the wine! Did you come back for us or for the wine? PABLO Both. PILAR Huh! AGUSTIN He came back for his horses. PABLO Much riding, Ingles. I couldn't turn back till the snow had melted. JORDAN Didn't you run into the cavalry? PABLO But a good horse, the new onecI took to high ground and came back through the hills. Why is there no food, Pilar? Where have you been? PILAR Guarding the pass below. The Ingles wouldn't leave until he was sure there was no more cavalry. PRIMITIVO Ingles! Anselmo says there is much movement across the bridge! ANSELMO I was just leaving the lookout when it started. JORDAN What started? ANSELMO Oh, guns, trucks, armored cars...even tanks. JORDAN Tanks? ANSELMO Um-hmm. Everything moving up toward the front. I marked it all down on the paper. I waited till the second column had crossed the bridge. JORDAN Anything more coming? ANSELMO Yes. I could hear another column as I came up through the pass. You want me to go back and watch? JORDAN Not now. These trucks...were they full of soldiers? ANSELMO Oh, yes, Roberto. What does it mean? PILAR It means they know the Republic is going to attack when the sun rises. Yes, now they know. They move up to meet our offensive. JORDAN Who knows the way through the lines to the side of the Republic? ANSELMO I do. JORDAN I need you at the bridge. Who else? ANDRES I know it. JORDAN Have you been through before? ANDRES Yes, twice. JORDAN Eight hours...nearly nine hours. Can you make it to Navacerrada? ANDRES I can try. JORDAN I don't mean try. Can you do it? ANSELMO I could do it in less time...with luck and carrying no pack. JORDAN I need you here. ANSELMO Oh, we came by a longer route because we carried explosive. It was safer. ANDRES I will get there as well as another. And if anything happens, it could happen to anyone. JORDAN This dispatch is for General Golz. Remember the name...Golz. ANDRES Where will I find him? JORDAN Ask when you get to our lines and they'll tell you. This seal ought to get you through our lines. If you have any trouble, just show them what I've written. Now try and make it in six hours...seven at the most. Remember...the attack is set for sunrise. ANDRES I would rather be with you at the bridge. JORDAN Get this information through to General Golz and we won't have to blow any bridge. They'll call off the bombardment at sunrise and we'll all escape to the Gredos to safety. Only one thing is certain. The bridge's got to go if the attack starts. FERNANDO Pablo! Pablo! Come back! Pilar! Pablo has gone! AGUSTIN (to Fernando) Didn't I tell you he was a coward? You and your confidence! If it wasn't for you, I would have killed him last night! I told you what he was! FERNANDO I tell you I have been betrayed! AGUSTIN Betrayed! Listen to him! He has been betrayed! You fool! FERNANDO No slanders...please! JORDAN Forget it! I'm the one to blame. Andres, you better get going. And good luck. FERNANDO Should I...should I go back and guard the horses? AGUSTIN Fool! JORDAN No. I'll look after them. RAFAEL Who will lead the retreat now? PILAR Shut up, gypsy! Andres will get to the general. (01:24:54)** JORDAN Get back in the cave. Pilar, get everything ready for the bridge one hour before daylight. And get what sleep you can. You'll need it. I'll look after the horses. Look after my things. ANDRES Salud! Hello! Don't shoot, comrades...don't shoot! FIRST SOLDIER Who are you? ANDRES A comrade...Andres Lopez...with a dispatch for General Golz! FIRST SOLDIER Why didn't you call the password if you're a comrade? ANDRES I don't know any password! SECOND SOLDIER He's not alone, Pedro. Toss a bomb! ANDRES No. Please. I'm alone. I'm completely by myself. Allow me to show you my papers. FIRST SOLDIER Stand up! Put your hands above your head! Come on! ANDRES Listen, I'm in a great hurry. I have a dispatch for General Golz at Navacerrada. FIRST SOLDIER Where is it? ANDRES Inside my shirt. How can I show it to you with my hands up? FIRST SOLDIER You're a long way from Navacerrada. Come on, I will take you to Captain Gomez. SECOND SOLDIER Spy! MARIA I brought your robe. I'll fix it for you. JORDAN Was this your idea or Pilar's? MARIA It was my idea, but Pilar told me to come. Even if she'd told me not to come, I would have come. Will there be fighting tomorrow? JORDAN Are you afraid? MARIA I'm afraid for you so much I do not think of me. Pilar told me that I'm to go with you, after the bridge...that you'll take me to the Republic. JORDAN You and Pilar will each have a horse. You'll be safe with Pilar. That will leave three horses for the others. MARIA But I go with you, not Pilar. JORDAN I came on foot with the old man and I shall go the same way. MARIA No! No, Pilar says no one will get out alive without a horse. But thecif Andres gets through to your general, there will be no bridge, will there? Will there, Roberto? JORDAN No. Maybe I should've sent word sooner about the movements here to meet the attack. MARIA How much time have we left? JORDAN A lifetime, Maria. MARIA I mean until daylight. JORDAN Five, six hours. MARIA Pilar told me that time is not important. JORDAN Maybe Pilar's right. MARIA Three days and three nights. Yet they're everything. Longer than the months in prison. Longer than the years I've lived. She told me something else when I left the cave. She said we must live all our life in the time that remains. She said... JORDAN What? What did she tell you? MARIA She said we would all die tomorrow. That you know it as well as she does, but you give it no importance. JORDAN She's crazy. That's just more of her gypsy superstition. MARIA You don't believe it? JORDAN Of course not. MARIA She had a reason for telling me. She said I must tell you everything that happened to me when they shot my mother and my father. JORDAN You've told me. MARIA No. No, I didn't tell you what happened when they herded us up the hill and across the square to the barber shop. JORDAN I don't want to hear it. (01:29:41)** MARIA Then two men looked at me and one said, "Oh, that's the daughter of the mayor," and the other said, "Commence with her." They cut the rope and they took me to the barber shop and they put me in the chair and held me. I looked at my face in the mirror, but all I could see was my mother and my father at the moment of the shooting, and my mother's words were in my head like a scream that went on and on. Andcand I could feel a pain, and they were pulling at my hair and cutting it off with a razor and...and then they...they put the braids in my mouth and tied them around my neck to make a gag. Then they ran clippers across my head. It was...it was then I commenced to cry, because until then I had been too frozen to feel anything. And in the mirror I could see the men laugh, and I couldn't look away from the horror my face made with the braids tied in my mouth. Oh. When they took me out of the door, I stumbled over the dead barber. They had shot him because he belonged to a union. Then I saw my best friend, Concepcion Garcia, being dragged in by two more men. When she saw me, she screamed. Oh, I could hear her screaming all the time they were shoving me across the square and into the doorway and up the stairs of the city hall to the office of my father where they put me on the couch. JORDAN Maria. MARIA It was there the worst things were done. JORDAN Don't talk about it. Don't think about it any more. MARIA Oh, I was going to tell you on the way back from El Sordo, but I was glad when you wouldn't let me. Then I was happy. I fc (sobs) I felt as if it had never happened. (sobs) No.(sobs) Tonight, Pilar said I must tell you everything. And now you won't love me. Tomorrow you'll take me through the lines and I'll never see you again...never. You won't want me. No, Roberto...we can't change things. But it's true I never kissed any man until you. When things were done to me, I fought until theyc JORDAN No! MARIA ctied my arms.... JORDAN No one's touched you. No one! MARIA You believe that? JORDAN I know that. MARIA And you can love me? JORDAN I can love you more. OFFICER I could see your headlight for a mile coming down the road! MIRANDA Hello, Gomez. GOMEZ Colonel. MIRANDA What brings you? Why didn't this get here sooner? GOMEZ Stupidity, my Colonel. MIRANDA I'm not at all sure you can get through now, with all the movements on the roads. (to officer) Write them a very strong safe-conduct. (to Gomez) You'll need something strong tonight. We're careful before an offensive. MARIA (laughs) You know what I've been thinking about? What I should do to take care of you well. I'll learn from Pilar and then, as I learn, I'll discover things for myself, and other things you can tell me. JORDAN What about me taking care of myself? MARIA (laughs) But you don't. This morning your sleeping robe should have been shaken and hired and hung somewhere in the sun. Then, before the dew comes, it should have been taken into shelter. JORDAN Go on. MARIA Your socks should be washed and dried. I would see that you have two pair. JORDAN What else? MARIA This. I would learn how to fire it. JORDAN That's easy. I'll teach you. MARIA Then if you're wounded, we won't be captured. I could kill you before I kill myself. JORDAN Do you have many ideas like that? MARIA Ever since I was rescued. But I'd rather have you shoot me. Promise me if there's ever any need that you will shoot me. JORDAN Sure. I promise. MARIA Thank you very much. I know it's not easy to do. But there are other things I can do for you. JORDAN Besides shoot me? (01:35:00)** MARIA Yes. I can roll cigarettes for you when you have no more of those that come in the box. JORDAN Without spilling tobacco? MARIA Yes. (laughs) And if you're wounded, I'll take care of you and dress your wound and wash you and feed you. JORDAN Maybe I won't be wounded. MARIA Then if you're sick, I'll take care of you, I'llcI'll make soup for you and read to you. JORDAN Maybe I won't get sick. MARIA Then I'll bring you coffee in the mornings when you wake up. JORDAN Maybe I don't like coffee. MARIA But you do! This morning you had two cups. (laughs) JORDAN Suppose I...suppose I get tired of coffee, and I'm not wounded or sick, and I give up smoking and I have only one pair of socks and roll up my robe myself. What then? MARIA Then I'll borrow the scissors of Pilar and cut your hair. JORDAN But I don't like having my hair cut. MARIA Neither do I. I like your hair the way it is. So, if there's nothing to do for you, I'll sit by you and watch you, and in the nights we'll make love. JORDAN You are shameless. MARIA (laughs) If you do not love me, I love you enough for both. (laughs) MARIA Hmm. I was asleep. I'm sorry I woke up. I didn't know I was sleeping. It was so beautiful to be there in your house. JORDAN My house? MARIA Yes. Yes, in America...the one you told me about, where you were a little boy. Does the stairway turn at the top, like this? JORDAN Uh-huh. MARIA And there is the door to your mother's room? Yes, that's the way it was. (laughs) And your mother was there, your grandfather, too. Your grandfather who fought in the American Civil War. JORDAN He's dead. MARIA He was there, just as you described him, and I liked him very much. And I loved your mother. She came out of her room holding a child who looked exactly like my Roberto, and when I asked her whose son it was, she said, "Why, it's yours, Maria." That's why I had to look at you. JORDAN Maybe you weren't dreaming. MARIA No, I was there, just as real as I'm here now. JORDAN Can't you wait till I take you there? MARIA Oh, Roberto, that...that, too, is like a dream...like a wonderful dream. (laughs) Oh, my hair amuses you because it's odd...but every day it's growing, and it will be long and I will not look ugly and perhaps you will love me very much. All the things you've told me tonight, it's...it's as if you'd already taken me to Madrid and to America. JORDAN That's just the beginning of our travels. Wait till this war is over. MARIA Do I please you? Will you always take me with you? JORDAN Unless you run away from me. MARIA No, I'll never go away from you. I loved you when I first saw you. I've always loved you, but I never saw you before. Now I'm your woman. I'll always be your woman. Always! GOMEZ Can you tell me where is the headquarters of General Golz, commanding the Thirty-fifth Division? SENTRY Not here. GOMEZ I was told he was in this vicinity. What is here? SENTRY The commandancia. GOMEZ The commandancia of what? SENTRY Who are you to ask so many questions? GOMEZ I am Captain Gomez of the Sixty-fifth Brigade and I ask where is the headquarters of General Golz! MARIA Listen. I can hear the wind in the trees. Now it will soon be light. It's so beautiful here. Will we ever come back? JORDAN Some day, Maria. MARIA And stay here again? JORDAN Some day. MARIA Do you think Andres got through? JORDAN We can't tell until sunrise. Are you afraid? (01:40:06)** MARIA Not now. I love you, Roberto...always remember. I love you as I loved my father and mother, as I love our unborn children, as I love what I love most in the world, and I love you more. Always remember. JORDAN I'll remember. MARIA Nothing can ever part us now, can it? JORDAN Nothing, Maria. PILAR Ingles! Ingles! JORDAN What is it, Pilar? What's wrong? PILAR It must have been Pablo! JORDAN Pablo's gone. What do you mean? PILAR Your exploder...the box that explodes the dynamite. When I stirred up the fire to make coffee for the men, I found it. JORDAN What? PILAR It was under the ashes. JORDAN I thought you were guarding my things. PILAR I slept with them. JORDAN You slept well! PILAR He must have done it last night before we got back from the pass. Maybe it will work again. MARIA Is there no other way to explode the charges? JORDAN Yes. Sure. A bad way, but I can do it. That swine! PILAR What is the way, Ingles? JORDAN Get me your hand-grenades. Do these grenades always explode? PILAR Yes, but not strong enough to blow a bridge. JORDAN I didn't ask that. Have they always exploded? PILAR Always. PABLO I've brought three more men from the band of Elias. PILAR Traitor. PABLO I've come back, Pilar, and I've brought more men for the bridge. JORDAN Did you do that? PABLO I had a moment of weakness. PILAR Kill him, Ingles! PABLO Yes, I meant to leave. Having seen what happened to El Sordo, I was afraid to die. But having done such a thing, I was lonely. Do you understandcloneliness? PILAR I understand cowardice! PABLO Don't mock me, woman. Don't you see I've come back? I...I've thought of a way to explode the dynamite. JORDAN So have I. PABLO I've brought more men for the bridge, Ingles. (to Pilar) They don't know you command here, Pilar. They...they think I'm still the leader here, or they wouldn't have followed me. PILAR (to Pablo) You are if you wish. For the fighting, yes. I suppose when a man has something once, always something remains. JORDAN Our men are waiting below. Tell them we're coming. PABLO Uh-huh. And, uh, don't worry about the retreat, Ingles. Now we have three more horses. JORDAN And three more men! PABLO Maybe they won't need their horses. PILAR You have much control, Ingles. JORDAN I'm glad he's back. No matter what he is, we need him. PILAR One last thing I must tell you. In that thing of the hand... JORDAN What thing of the hand? PILAR No, listen. Don't be angry. When I looked in your hand, it was just gypsy humbug. Gypsies do such tricks to make themselves important. (laughs) JORDAN Sure, sure. Forget it. PILAR I don't want you to worry. JORDAN Who's worrying? PILAR The truth is, I saw nothing but happiness...happiness for you and the cropped head. JORDAN I know that. And I don't need a nurse. PILAR I care for you very much, Ingles. Remember that and don't worry. Everything will go well at the bridge. (01:44:44)** JORDAN Sure. Everything's all right. Let's go. Get your things together. JORDAN Are the orders clear now? PABLO Yes. Take the road-mender's hut, destroy the post and stop anything from getting through to the bridge as long as possible. JORDAN Right. But not a move unless you hear the falling of bombs. PABLO Yeah. (to men) Clear? JORDAN And you, Pilar, the same with the sawmill post. Remember, not a shot to be fired unless we hear the bombardment. Be careful not to alarm the sentries unless you hear the bombs. PABLO Don't worry about the retreat, Ingles. We'll have plenty of horses. PILAR Get along, Ingles, before he steals the rest of your things. PABLO You don't understand me, woman. We understand each other. PILAR Nobody understands you. Neither God nor your mother. Nor I. Nor you, either. PABLO Come. JORDAN Goodbye. See you soon. MARIA Goodbye, Roberto. Take much care. JORDAN Of course. Don't cry. MARIA No, I don't. But come back to me. JORDAN I will. Don't worry if you hear firing. There's bound to be much firing. MARIA Only come back quickly. JORDAN Bye, Maria. MARIA Salud, Roberto. JORDAN Get across the gorge now and don't fire unless I do. When the sentry is eliminated, come to the middle of the bridge and help me. ANSELMO It is all clear to me. I will do as you order. JORDAN Listen, old one. When you fire, don't think of it as a man, but as a target. And remember, if anything happens to me, you'll have to finish the job as I showed you. Go now. ANSELMO Until soon, Roberto. JORDAN Until soon, Anselmo. (01:50:44)** GOMEZ Captain Gomez, 65th Brigade. We have an urgent dispatch for General Golz. DUVAL Why didn't this get here sooner? GOMEZ Stupidity, Colonel Duval! Ignorance and stupidity and crazy suspicion! DUVAL (into phone) General Golz! Urgent! But I just spoke to him. Huh? Position Segovia? I'll try there. DUVAL (into phone) No, no, no! Get me position Avila! Where's General Golz? Planes one? (into phone) Get me planes one! GOMEZ Can't you call the airfield? DUVAL (into phone) General Golz! Not there? (hits table) I called Segovia! (into phone) Get me Segovia again! Quick, man! GOMEZ Call the airfield. Stop the bombardment! DUVAL You think I want to get shot? DUVAL (into phone) Yes...Golz! Golz! General Golz? GOLZ (into phone) From Jordan? Yes, read it. What? (into phone) Too late, Duval! That means we're done for. This time we fail. Too bad. Yes, too bad. (01:55:50)** JORDAN Rope! JORDAN Hand grenade. JORDAN Other side! MARIA Please! Please have him be all right because all my heart and all of me is at the bridge. Please bring him back to me, and I'll do anything you say ever...'cause there isn't any me. I'm not here any more. I'm only with him. Please, please take care of him for me. RAFAEL Pablo, I got me a...a tank! PILAR One! AGUSTIN Two! PRIMITIVO Three! PILAR Four! JORDAN All right. Now take the wire back as far as it will reach...before I connect it. (02:00:19)** ANSELMO Roberto! Roberto! Hurry, Roberto! Hurry! JORDAN Blow it, Anselmo! Blow it! ANSELMO No, I can't! You'll be... JORDAN Pull it. I tell you, pull it! ANSELMO No. No, Roberto! PILAR Maria! Maria! Your Ingles is all right. Hear me? MARIA Yes. PILAR He's all right. MARIA Yes, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Roberto! Oh! PILAR The old one? JORDAN Dead. PILAR We lost Fernando. JORDAN If I'd had the exploder, the old man would be alive. AGUSTIN What passes below? Doesn't Pablo know that the bridge is gone? PILAR Maybe he can't leave. AGUSTIN Then let us leave! The devil with him! JORDAN Wait! He'll be back if he's able. AGUSTIN (spits and moans) JORDAN Machine gun. AGUSTIN Here comes the... PABLO Plenty of horses now, Ingles! Where's Fernando? And the old man? PILAR Where are the three men from the band of Elias? AGUSTIN What were you shooting in the gorge? Why don't you say you shot them? PABLO Shut up! AGUSTIN Answer me! PABLO I look after my own people. AGUSTIN And the men of Elias? PABLO They were not our people. I provide horses for my people! AGUSTIN We have horses to spare. PABLO Yeah? How did I know we would have three killed! Now, shut up! I lead the retreat! PILAR No! JORDAN Don't be stubborn, woman. PILAR Watch the Maria. JORDAN Watch yourself. SOLDIER (shouts) (02:05:05)** JORDAN Wait for the next shot, then go hard before they can reload. MARIA No. JORDAN Now! MARIA No! MARIA (screams) Roberto! Roberto! Oh! Let me go! Roberto! What is it? Is it...? JORDAN It's...it's broken. MARIA Can you ride? JORDAN Get me a strip of canvas. Tear it from one of the packs. MARIA Yes. JORDAN (to Pablo) Get me the machine gun. You can make it all right to the Gredos if I hold 'em here. PILAR No, Ingles! We'll carry you. JORDAN Don't argue. I can't ride. I couldn't even sit on a horse. I...I'd pass out. Pablo knows I'm right. I want to talk to Maria alone. But when I tell you to take her, take her. She'll want to stay. But take her. PABLO Talk fast, Ingles. The soldiers will soon be coming through the gorge. JORDAN Maria, listen. Don't...don't say anything. We won't be going to America this time. But always I go with you wherever you go. Understand? You go now, Maria. MARIA No. No, I stay with you, Roberto. I... JORDAN No, Maria. MARIA Yes. JORDAN What I do now, I do alone. I couldn't do it if you were here. MARIA (sobs) No. JORDAN If you go, then I go, too. Don't you see how it is? MARIA No. JORDAN Whichever one there is, is both. MARIA No. No, I stay with you. (sobs) JORDAN No, each of us must do this thing alone. MARIA (sobbing) JORDAN Do it for each other. MARIA No. JORDAN But if you go, then I go with you. MARIA (sobbing) JORDAN That way I go, too. I know you'll go now, Maria, for both of us...because we love each other...always. MARIA (sobbing) It's easier for me to stay with you, Roberto. JORDAN I know it's harder for you. But now I am you also. If you go, I go, too. MARIA (sobbing) JORDAN That's the only way I can go. You're me now. Surely you must feel that, Maria. MARIA (sobbing) JORDAN Remember last night? Our time is "now" and it'll never end. MARIA (sobbing) No. JORDAN (v.o.) You're me now and I'm you. Now you understand. Now you're going. And you're going well and fast and far, and...we'll go to America another time, Maria. Stand up now, and go, and we both go. Stand up, Maria. Remember you're me, too. You're all there will ever be of me now. Stand up. No. Stand up. There's no goodbye, Maria, because we're not apart. Pilar! No, don't turn around. Go now. Be strong. Take care of our life. MARIA No! No! No, Pilar, I can't go! No! Oh, Roberto! Roberto, let me stay, please! Please don't make me go! No, Roberto...no! Roberto! Roberto! Roberto! JORDAN God, that was lucky I could make her go. I don't mind this at all now. They're away. Think how it would be ifcthey'd got Maria instead of you. Don't pass out, Jordan. Think about America. I can't! Think about Madrid. I can't. Think aboutcMaria. I can do that, all right. No, you fool! You weren't kidding Maria about that talk of "now"! Now they can't stop us...ever! She's going on with me! Yes! Right! The End